Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

Lie honestly on the bed with a helmet. Chen Yushan followed the orders of the Ark and left his brain empty. There was no fuss and no more thoughts.

Gradually, a little bit of difficulty began to spill over into my mind.

Just when she couldn't help but beat a debt and thought she was going to fall asleep soon, the back of her neck felt like an ant bit her.

And then, for a moment, something unexpected happened to her.

The darkness surrounding her sight, like being crushed by a rainbow, broke apart into fragments and scattered outward.

Surprised by the special effects of this scene, just as Chen Yushan was stunned, the darkness surrounding him had been completely dispersed.

As if the cocoon had been reborn, she had regained sight of the light and was already in a blue grassland.

Yes, this grassland is blue.

And the sky is burning red.

Standing in this strange world, Chen Yushan raised his right hand incredibly and touched his cheek.

No sense of touch.

But she did feel it, and this hand was on her face.

“Where's the helmet? ”

Missing!?

His hands were incredibly grasping on his face, Chen Yushan's expression became more and more surprised. He swayed an incredible color in his pupils and muttered to himself, "Am I asleep? ”

Just as she hesitated to bite herself to confirm it, the familiar voice rang out beside her ear.

“It's also true that you're asleep. The original principle of this equipment is a kind of interference in your dreams. Of course, this is still somewhat different from the general state of our dreams, which is more like an imagination motivated by neuro-electric signals… Forget it, it's troublesome to interpret it in common language, but you simply understand it as dreaming. ”

It sounds like it came from outside the world, but it's so close to where she is now.

Chen Yushan looked around and tried to stamp his feet.

There was no unexpected sound, not even stepping on the soles of the feet on the ground, or any perception.

It's a strange feeling, as if your body doesn't belong to you, just peeking into the world from her perspective. Nothing here will change because of her interaction, nor will she feel anything other than visual feedback from the world to her...

She can't remember if she felt pain or not when she was dreaming before.

The vast majority of people who want to do this will not pay attention to it.

At least now, it is only when she speaks that she can sense from the touch between her lips that her mouth and throat belong to her, not to her hands and feet, and that their presence must be recognized by her eyes.

This strange feeling gave rise to a slight confusion, and she tried to open her mouth and ask.

“Can you see the situation on my side? ”

“Of course I can see, I can even see you lying in bed talking. When the data output from the host works on your brain through the neuromodulator, I get a corresponding message. This message is handled by a graphics card, and it also shows similar graphics on the screen… Of course, after all, all the images I see are made up of pixel dots, certainly not as high-definition as you see them now. ”

“Indeed… I was just thinking that the details were too realistic. ”

Squat down and look at the tiny, strong blue grass like Mai Wang Mai Mang. Chen Yushan looked closely at its details.

If you concentrate, she can even see a row of light blue textures on that weed.

This can no longer be described in real life.

Reality is an insult to it.

This is like a world.

A living, new world!

……

“How do you feel? ”

Watching her wake up after the experience, she stood next to the ark and asked, handing it a glass of hot water.

“… an incredible experience, I cannot describe the shock in my heart, in short, very, very amazing. You've tried it yourself, you should understand the feeling in my heart. ”

Until he took off his helmet, he thanked Chen Yushan for holding hot water in his hand and remembered the previous world of strange land departure. There was a sense of perseverance at one time.

After a pause, she continued.

“I've always wanted to go around the world... feel like with this thing, let alone travel around the world, even different worlds can go. ”

Like the Ark, she gave up a lot of things after choosing a career for life. In the past, she used to carry a bag and take a walk-and-walk trip, but now it's almost a good ideal.

Don't say there's no time.

In her current capacity as CEO of Startech, and the commercial and even non-commercial secrets she comes into contact with, it's less safe to just walk around.

This technology is still quite tempting to her. Confusion.

Hearing this interesting thought, the Ark laughed and said.

“I'm afraid that's a little tricky, because most virtual entities actually draw on the impressions in your own memory, through the vague computation of the brain… the common denominator is through brain complementation. The more complex the scenario, the more difficult it is to build. If it's just a meadow, I just need to set a few limited parameters like color, shape, etc. But if you want to restore what it looks like in virtual reality… we have to develop specialized modeling tools for this virtual reality system in order to tap into its potential. ”

In short, if you apply the entire set of devices to your PC settings, the neural adjustment modem will probably play a similar role as the CPU, while the graphics card will be directly assumed by the part of the brain that is responsible for generating the image.

And that's where the problem is, the way the human brain handles images, and the graphics cards of computers come from, is based on two completely different sets of principles.

The most prominent manifestation of this is that the general chip employs logic operations and the processing of data is precise and linear. The brain, on the other hand, uses fuzzy computation, which is not precise and linear in the processing of information.

And it's this characteristic that determines that programs for brain compilation, and programs for graphics card compilation, are two very different or even very different ways of thinking about compilation.

To build a scene with this virtual reality system, for example, he doesn't have to brush every detail of the entire scene, he just has to programmatically set up a grassland with a lot of grass on it, they're blue, about how tall, or even what kind of grass, to build the whole scene, and the scene can easily be “read" by the vast majority of brains.

Just like the virtual entity that Chen Yushan sees in immersion, he can even see the grass leaf lines clearly.

After all, the vast majority of people have seen what grass looks like, even if they haven't seen grasslands in real life, more or less on film and television works or images of the Internet.

But if there's more to this grassland than just grass, if there's a house, he has to dig a hollow way to describe what it looks like, whether it's a mansion or a small shack, a couple of windows, a few doors, and so on, and he can't describe it in a generic way like "A Professor's Villa at Zhongshan International.”

After all, everyone has seen this kind of thing on the lawn, and only he himself has seen the villa of the Ark's own home, apart from his family and friends' neighbors.

The most interesting thing about this technology is that, depending on the differences in information settings, even the same data, is blurred by different brains and presented in different people's eyes, there may be slight differences.

But this also raises a problem.

That's how to describe, in procedural terms, “perfectly” something that no one has ever seen, and minimize this precision error.

After all, the greatest significance of the Internet is the transmission and exchange of information.

If what everyone sees is what they want to see, not what that thing is supposed to be - or what developers want it to look like, then the Internet doesn't exist.

And this device becomes a toy that can only be used for self-entertainment.

Chen Yushan: “That means I can only go to places I've been? ”

Ark: “Not necessarily, the debris stored in your memory is probably bigger than you think, even if you haven't seen it, it can be presented through a complete setup… it's just a huge job difficulty. Like me and you describing the face of a man, even if I said it in more detail, without giving you a photograph, even if you rub your shoulders past, it's hard to recognize him in the street. ”

Chen Yushan couldn't help but write a little regret on his face.

“So that's... that's too bad. ”

The ark nodded down: "Well, this thing is just a prototype. ”

“It's not just the question I was talking about, including simulations of a series of signals like hearing, smell, taste touch, etc., that are not yet complete. You should also notice that when you enter immersion mode, all the sounds you hear come from the outside world, and you speak directly through the vocal cords. ”

Chen Yushan nodded.

“It is true… if I could not see my hands, I would not even feel my presence in that virtual world. ”

“This is the difficulty that this technology has yet to solve," the ark nodded down and continued, "For the time being, I can only simulate visual signals, the sound has to rely on headphones, and the touch is temporarily unsolved. Not only that, but the architecture of the entire virtual reality system, and even the most critical neural signal modem, many things are not processed properly, all of which take time. ”

But even though there are many shortcomings, the device is quite impressive compared to a traditional "visual system” VR device.

At the very least, you don't have to worry about "stunning sickness," you don't have to worry about injuring your eyes.

And from the point of view of image quality, it's much more efficient to present the image directly in the brain than to present it in front of the human eye through a screen, and then pass it through the retina and the visual nerve channels into the brain.

Ideally, users should forget their bodies in reality and not have to worry about what their hands are doing right now, immersed in virtual worlds like a dream, just focus on what is happening “right in front of them".

After all, and as one VR conceptual founder put it, no matter how advanced imaging technology is, the ideal hardware to create a new reality is not an external feature, but a "chip in the brain” or something similar.

“Leaving aside these technical questions,” the ark paused for a moment, suddenly laughing and saying, “Well, I'm not lying to you, am I? ”

Chen Yushan was slightly stunned, and then Guan Ru said: "Indeed… I retract the previous words, it is indeed a subversive technology. I even have a feeling that it's going to change not just the concept of VR, but even people's understanding of network interaction. ”

The ark nodded down and said, "That's what I thought. ”

Soon the world will be entering the 5g era. As the speed of the Internet increases by an order of magnitude, it will not only change the download speed of Sandcarved netizens, but it will change the operating ecology of the entire Internet.

People rely more frequently on the internet, even connecting to WiFi or Bluetooth on toilets and pools. In such a large age, a breakthrough in virtual reality technology will inevitably bring about disruptive changes in the entire Internet ecology.

With this in mind, Chen Yushan wrote a clear excitement in his eyes and said with anticipation.

“Is there something I need to do? ”

The Ark thought for a while and said: "Actually… no. ”

Chen Yushan: “...? ”

Looking at the look on Sister's face, the Ark was somewhat embarrassed.

Of course he couldn't say that he only called her here to “share the joy of success," so he coughed softly.

“After all, you've also seen that this technology is not perfect… But if you're willing to help, you can help me figure out a way to get a few experimenters to come here, or to put the model directly on the market. I have no objection. After all, I also need to improve the whole research through the data feedback from the experimenters. ”

Of course, after all, this stuff is not cheap, and if the ark isn't sure if it's really going to sell, the average person can afford it.

In contrast, he preferred the former.

If anyone wanted to be a mouse, his research would go a lot better.

Upon hearing about the needs of the Ark, Chen Yushan immediately asked: “What is the cost of the entire equipment? ”

The Ark thought about it and said: "Mass production is not good, but this one… it's about 100,000. ”

Chen Yushan sucked in a cold breath.

Not because it's too expensive.

It's because…

“I bet if I had a hundred thousand... this thing would definitely sell crazy. ”